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𠬛

𠬛

𠬛	U+20B1B, 𠬛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-20B1B

← 𠬚
[U+20B1A]

CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B

𠬜 →
[U+20B1C]

Translingual

Han character

𠬛 (radical 29 又+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹水 (SHE), composition ⿱刀又)

to dive underwater

References

KangXi: page 165, character 14

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 393, character 5

Unihan data for U+20B1B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		𠬛
alt. forms		𠬸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 𠬛
Small seal script

Simplified from 𠬸 (囘 → 刀).

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): mò, mà (mo⁴, ma⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ, ㄇㄚˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: mò
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
  - Wade-Giles: mo⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
  - IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
  - Pinyin: mà
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄚˋ
  - Wade-Giles: ma⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mah
  - IPA ^(key): /ma̠⁵¹/

Middle Chinese: /muət̚/▼

Rime
Character	𠬛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	沒 (56)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫勃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muət̚/
Pan Wuyun	/muot̚/
Shao Rongfen	/muət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwət̚/
Li Rong	/muət̚/
Wang Li	/muət̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/muət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mù

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter-Sagart): /*mˤut/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	𠬛
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mò
Middle Chinese	‹ mwot ›
Old Chinese	/*mˤut/
English	to dive, drown, die
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Verb

𠬛

(archaic) (= 沒) to go into water to get something